France: Amundi and CACEIS launch a tokenized monetary fund with Ant International

An Amundi money market fund now accessible in tokenized version

Amundi, the largest European asset manager, announced on June 15 that it had successfully launched tokenized shares of its fund Amundi Money Market Fund – Short Termdenominated in euros and US dollars.

These shares were tailor-made for Ant International, the international branch of the Chinese digital payments giant. The operation is a continuation of a memorandum of understanding signed in November 2025 between the two groups, aimed at exploring the uses of blockchain for real-time treasury management.

In this arrangement, CACEIS, a subsidiary of Crédit Agricole and European leader inasset servicingplays a dual role. The bank acts as both a transfer agent and tokenization agent, providing the bridge between traditional rails of finance and blockchain infrastructure.

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Ant International as pilot client for its on-chain treasury

Ant International becomes the first client of this initiative. The group uses these tokenized shares to optimize the management of its intra-group liquidity, a major issue for a company present on many different markets and currencies.

Kelvin Li, General Manager Platform Tech and Senior Vice President at Ant International, specified that the group has already been using blockchain for its internal treasury since 2019.

The objective is to build a future in which monetary movements will be instantaneous and without borders. We are delighted to work with Amundi to develop investment products accessible 24 hours a day on a global scale.

Fannie Wurtz, Deputy General Manager of Amundi and Chair of Asia, for her part underlined the manager’s desire to “shape the future of finance” by supporting clients with complex needs regarding digital assets.

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Heading towards the Whale platform and new markets

The trio does not intend to stop there. The three players are now studying the launch of the fund Amundi Money Market Fund – Short Term on Whale, the internal treasury management platform based on Ant International’s internal blockchain.

The idea is to integrate several Amundi funds with this infrastructure to collaboratively develop new money market fund solutions for corporate treasurers around the world. Amundi and Ant International also plan to extend the offering to new markets and new currencies, subject to regulatory authorizations.

This announcement is part of a tokenization strategy increasingly assumed by Amundi, which has more than 2,300 billion euros in assets under management. The group had already tokenized a euro fund on Ethereum at the end of 2025, and had joined forces with the fintech Spiko at the beginning of 2026 for another tokenized fund.

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For CACEIS, this partnership confirms the shift initiated since obtaining its PSAN registration in 2023, then its MiCA approval in June 2025, making it the first French bank to obtain this European sesame. Jean-Jacques Barbéris, Deputy CEO of CACEIS, sees this as proof of the group’s ability to “fully embrace the transformation at work in the financial industry on a global scale”.

This new project is part of a global movement. The tokenized US Treasury bill market reached $15.3 billion in May 2026, compared to $750 million at the start of 2024, driven by players like BlackRock and Franklin Templeton.

More broadly, the market for tokenized real-world assets (RWA) jumped 589% between early 2025 and mid-2026, according to data shared by Binance. A trend which confirms that the convergence between traditional finance and blockchain is accelerating, with Amundi now in the forefront on the European side.

Source : CACEIS

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